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Sex, America, Cheap Trick
Box set by
Cheap Trick
ReleasedAugust 13, 1996 (August 13, 1996)
Recorded1975–1990
Label Epic
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]
Entertainment WeeklyB− [2]
Los Angeles Times [3]
Rolling Stone [4]

Sex, America, Cheap Trick is a 1996 box set by the rock band Cheap Trick. It includes 17 previously unreleased songs (among them the earliest studio recording of the 1979 hit " I Want You to Want Me"), as well as the band's biggest hits. A color booklet is included.

Track listing

All songs written by Rick Nielsen except where noted. Many of the then-unreleased tracks would later also appear as bonus tracks on the reissues of the original albums on CD.

Disc one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1." Hello There" 1:40
2." ELO Kiddies" (single version) 3:41
3."Hot Love" 2:30
4." Oh, Candy" (single version) 3:06
5."Mandocello" 4:47
6."Lovin' Money" (previously unreleased) 4:09
7." I Want You to Want Me" (alternate, previously unreleased version) 3:00
8." Southern Girls" (single version)Nielsen, Tom Petersson3:35
9."So Good to See You" 3:37
10."Down on the Bay" (live) (previously unreleased) Jeff Lynne3:33
11."Mrs. Henry" (live) (previously unreleased) Bob Dylan9:37
12."Violins" (live) (previously unreleased) 6:13
13."Ballad of TV Violence" (live) (alternate version) 4:52
14."You're All Talk" (live) (alternate version)Nielsen, Petersson3:55
15."Fan Club" (demo) (previously unreleased) 7:11

Disc two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1." Surrender" 4:13
2." High Roller" (alternate version)Nielsen, Robin Zander, Petersson3:59
3."On Top of the World" 4:06
4." Auf Wiedersehen"Nielsen, Petersson3:42
5."I Want You to Want Me" (live) 3:44
6." Clock Strikes Ten" (live) 3:54
7." Dream Police" 3:53
8." Way of the World"Zander, Nielsen3:38
9." Gonna Raise Hell" 9:19
10." Voices" 4:22
11." Stop This Game"Nielsen, Zander3:57
12."Just Got Back" 2:05
13."Baby Loves to Rock" 3:17
14." Everything Works If You Let It" (alternate version) 3:56
15." World's Greatest Lover" (demo - Rick vocal) 4:56
16." Waiting for the Man/ Heroin" (live - Tom vocal) Lou Reed7:46

Disc three

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1." Day Tripper" (live) (unedited, alternate version)Lennon-McCartney4:16
2."World's Greatest Lover" 4:51
3."I Need Love" (demo) (previously unreleased) 3:57
4."I'm the Man" (previously unreleased) 2:11
5."Born to Raise Hell" (previously unreleased) 2:46
6."Ohm Sweet Ohm" (previously unreleased) 2:49
7." She's Tight" 2:58
8."Love's Got a Hold on Me"Nielsen, Zander, Bun E. Carlos2:36
9." If You Want My Love" (alternate, extra bridge version) 4:26
10."Lookin' Out for Number One" 3:43
11."Don't Make Our Love a Crime" (demo) (previously unreleased) 3:34
12."All I Really Want" (non LP B-side) 2:30
13." I Can't Take It"Zander3:28
14."Twisted Heart" (previously unreleased) 4:17
15."Invaders of the Heart" 3:59
16."Y O Y O Y" 7:29

Disc four

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1." Tonight It's You"Nielsen, Zander, Jon Brant, Mark Radice4:47
2."Cover Girl"Nielsen, Radice3:42
3."This Time Around"Nielsen, Zander, Brant, Radice4:34
4."A Place in France" (previously unreleased)Nielsen, Zander, Brant, Radice, Carlos3:52
5."Funk #9" ("The Doctor" demo) (previously unreleased) 3:35
6."Take Me to the Top"Nielsen, Zander4:00
7."Money Is the Route of All Fun" (previously unreleased) 2:48
8."Fortune Cookie" (demo) (previously unreleased)Nielsen, Zander3:40
9."You Want It"Petersson, Zander3:40
10." The Flame"Bob Mitchell, Nick Graham5:39
11."Through the Night" (non LP B-side)Petersson, Zander, Nielsen4:18
12."Stop That Thief" (previously unreleased in the U.S.)Nielsen, Karen Nielsen3:55
13."I Know What I Want" (live) (non LP B-side) 4:45
14."Had to Make You Mine"Petersson, Zander, Nielsen3:16
15."I Can't Understand It"Nielsen, Zander3:29
16." Can't Stop Falling into Love"Nielsen, Zander, Petersson, Fred Nesbit3:49
17."Come On Christmas" 7:30

References

  1. ^ "Sex, America, Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  2. ^ "Sex, America, Cheap Trick | Music Review | Entertainment Weekly". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 2009-08-23. Retrieved 2013-05-29.
  3. ^ "Set Shows Cheap Trick's Unfulfilled Promise : CHEAP TRICK "Sex, America, Cheap Trick" Epic/Legacy (** 1/2)". Los Angeles Times. September 6, 1996.
  4. ^ Fricke, David (October 31, 1996). "Sex, America, Cheap Trick". Rolling Stone.
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